A Love Beyond Words

Through the striking cinematography of Nurit Aviv and a soundtrack composed of beautiful chanting and haunting silence, this film explores the mystery and discretion of forty silent nuns living at the Beit Jamal monastery near Jerusalem. The film attempts to deal with the cinematic challenge posed by their very silence and incorporates texts from the […] >>

A Waste of Space

Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of […] >>

The Unrecognized

When the Israeli government forms a plan to urbanize Bedouin villages in the Negev, the lives of 120,000 citizens are on the verge of radical change. Othman, a local young man, is appointed to convince the people of Bir Hadaj to embrace modernization. Soon, he realizes that the true potential for change lies with the […] >>

Silent Skies

Miriam (33), leaves her family home heavily pregnant, and moves in with Nevo (31), her terminally ill brother, in a village in the south of Israel. Their connection creates a charged, emotional reunion, during which she can’t decide whether to give in to the pressure and move him to a medical facility, or keep him […] >>

Honey Trap

The Kiryat Moshe neighborhood on the outskirts of Rehovot is home to a large Jewish Ethiopian community. Nowadays a national priority construction evacuation project guarantees the residents a safe exit from the neglected and poor ghetto. Hana, a single mother who is worried about her teenage son, jumps at the opportunity for a change that […] >>

Not a Hero

Yam doesn’t like when people tell him no. No, you can’t act on stage, no, you can’t fly with your family, no, you can’t go out with your friends for a beer. Especially not if the reason is his wheelchair. But when they tell him he can’t be drafted into the army, he sets out […] >>

Another Meaning Of Love

After many attempts to restore her marriage, Kati is facing her second divorce. Together with her son, the filmmaker, she tries to understand what really led to it. Past traumas float to the surface as one question constantly echoes in the background – what keeps people together and what separates them? >>

Brave Girls

The Story of the Israeli women’s national football team. In the first game of the season Noam is injured. Her ADHD and losses on the football field discourage her. Opal, her team mate, realizes that expectations from her religious family may interrupt her professional  aspirations. An important upcoming tournament in Russia prompts the girls to […] >>

A Silly Song for Lia

16-year-old Jonathan, a daydreaming musician, arrives at his best friend Lia’s house to finally declare his love for her. Instead, he finds her older sister on a bad psychedelic trip caused by a broken heart. >>

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When the Yom Kippur War began, Eli was a tank gunner in the Golan Heights. The filmmaker, who is Eli’s daughter, interviews him about the day the war broke out and paints a collage of his memories. >>

The Last Lapdance

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Blood Engagement

A violent crime leads us through a fascinating journey back in time from Africa to modern Israel, as we follow the hopes, frustrations and daily struggles of two Ethiopian women. The film tells the stories of Abuna Vessa, mother of five, who was strangled to death by her husband; and Ania Matiko, whose husband fails […] >>

My Beloved Country

A literary-documentary journey into Block 461 in Ma’alot. The film presents cooperation and confrontation between documentary expression and the literary text written by the novelist Sara Shilo. The Neighborhood – “This is a tolerant neighborhood, like the seashore. Wave after wave of immigrant families have broken on it for decades.” Snow-White – “Snow fell in […] >>

Please Hold The Line

Tali, a single mom, finds out her bank account is blocked. The kindergarten payment fell through and her daughter is banned. She is lost between call centers, until she decides to gain back some self-respect. She takes her daughter to the call center of the insurance company that screwed her. >>

End of Love Season

At the age of 75, Geula breaks up with her husband Arik, 77. A contractor is hired to build a wall that divides the family house in two, and each of them now lives in their own half. Director Shai Gal points his camera to his parents in an attempt to find out what happened […] >>